20th Sunday after Trinity 

 

This service is live in church, but it will be streamed so if you are unable to attend you can view it online. Now most of the words will also appear when you view the service on line so it will be easier to follow the service.

However, below are the day’s readings plus the intercessions for reference, as there will not appear on screen.

First reading:   Exodus 33: 12 – 23

Then Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ ¹³ Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.”

¹⁴ And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

¹⁵ Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. ¹⁶ For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.”

¹⁷ So the Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.”

¹⁸ And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”

¹⁹ Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” ²⁰ But He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live.” ²¹ And the Lord said, “Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock. ²² So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by. ²³ Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen.”

Second reading:  Matthew 22: 15 – 2

Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. ¹⁶ They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are. ¹⁷ Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay the imperial tax^[a] to Caesar or not?”

¹⁸ But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? ¹⁹ Show me the coin used for paying the tax.” They brought him a denarius, ²⁰ and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

²¹ “Caesar’s,” they replied.

Then he said to them, “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”

²² When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

 

Holy Week

Palm Sunday –29th March

 8:00am Holy Communion

                               11:00am Procession of Palms from the vicarage garden ( with pony) and family service, followed by the procession of the cross to Barnes Square.

 

Monday of Holy Week- 9:30pm – On-line night prayer

 

Tuesday of Holy Week – 7:30pm – Stations of the cross

 

Wednesday of Holy Week – 10:00am Holy Communion

7:30pm – Holy Communion with prayer for healing at Altham St Jame.

 

Maundy Thursday –  

7:30pm – Sung communion with washing of  feet followed by stripping of the alter.

 

Good Friday –

10:00am Family Service

11:00am Morning Worship

2:00pm Last hour at the cross – Altham St James

 

Easter Eve

8:00am – Easter Vigil – Altham St James

Easter Day

6:30am – Sunrise Service – Mercer park

8:00am – Holy Communion

9:30am – Holy Communion at Altham St James

11:00am – Sung Communion

 

 

                                                  9 Lessons and Carols

On 21st December at 6:30pm

In All Saint’s Church.

This is a beautiful service, do come along and bring your friends and family.

Church Ribchester Day

28th September

Arrive between 10:30am – 11:00am

Finish by 3:30pm

We are delighted that many people have already indicated their interest in coming on our church day to Ribchester. There is now a list at the back of church asking for  firm commitments.

The day will be free, but a small donation per person accepted. There will be children’s activities, an input for adults, sandwich luch together, time to explore the village/ have an ice cream/ play at the park before we enjoy a 15 minute walk up to the beautiful Stydd Church for a short service.